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Such a mesmerizing work for a mesmerizing film. Not for the orchestral theme lovers; this is static and exploratory — but in very intriguing ways that only Jóhannsson could do.
What about the Night at the Museum scores? I’ve read good things about those, but never managed to get into them.
I love how the main theme seems to sing out “Night at the Museeeeeeeeeum”.
Good additions, Malte!
Since DAS BOOT was brought up, I should also point out that I’m a big Herbert Grönemeyer fan from childhood. Brief backstory: In the 80s and 90s, we sometimes visited some German friends of my parents who lived in Hamburg (they vacationed near our summer house in Denmark every year; hence why we knew them). They also had two sons, a bit older than me, but more or less the same age. While this was before I had German in school, I picked up a few words, including constructing the weird phrase “Volkswagen Geschmack” that I repeated over and over again — which they thought was funny. So during one of our visits there, the two sons had made a mixed tape for me, called “Volkswagen Geschmack”, with a homemade cover:
Long story short (or not so short now), the cassette contained one Grönemeyer album on each side – SPRÜNGE and 4630 BOCHUM. I loved them, and still do.
But only later did I realize he was so multi-talented, both as an actor (in DAS BOOT and other things) and a film composer. Like on THE AMERICAN and A MOST WANTED MAN by Anton Corbijn.
I’m not good at destilling favourites into lists
But that’s the whole fun of being a film music nerd! Lists for life!
In seriousness, good selections.
My initial idea was about real-life regimes, like those of Trump, Putin, Xi, Jung-un….but doesn’t have be as concrete as that. Certain sci fi elements can be added. For example, THE HANDMAIDEN was also on my mind, whether you pick the Sakamoto or Taylor.
But I suppose oppressive regimes in any shape or form would qualify, really. Including prison films.
Many good suggestions so far, by the way!
As someone who cares neither for the Marvel AVENGERS, nor James Bond, this entertaining (but slightly bombastic) score is the closest I’ll get to both.
If people haven’t checked it out already, I recommend NAE PASARAN! by Patrick Doyle’s son, conveninently also named Patrick Doyle (Patrick Neil Doyle, to be precise). Very nice score.
Thanks, Gerate! We had a member here called “Captain Future” (aka Volker) back in 2018. He seems to have disappeared(?).
But yes, Martin Böttcher is great. I don’t own any soundtracks by him, but I’ve sampled some over the years. Same with Peter Thomas.
I believe he worked on TATORT, as did a lot of composers (including Doldinger). I feel like there’s a treasure trove of unreleased music there to be discovered and/or released.
I forgot to mention Frank Duval’s gorgeous BITTE LASS DIE BLUMEN LEBEN, btw, a composer who also worked on DERRICK.
I’ve heard of him, but don’t think I ever heard any works. Thanks for the link.
I’ve been following (sort of) the work of Gabriel Prokofiev in recent years, although the music has very little to do with his grandfather.
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This isn’t normally a type of score I gravitate towards anymore (big and bold, orchestral action film music, with some electric guitars thrown in), but once upon a time, i.e. the 90s, this was the best thing ever. And this score is exactly from this period. So although I came to it late, probably some 10 years ago, I appreciate its “joie-de-vivre”, so to speak.
